Manager Trainee Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; or a high school diploma/GED plus one year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field, and/or equivalent military experience.
• Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable.
• Ability to work across multiple shifts, including nights and/or weekends, if needed; the posting specifically requires willingness to work non-traditional shifts such as nights, weekends, and overnight.
• Willingness to relocate regionally depending on account assignment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing a team.
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and effectively address existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
• Ability to analyze situations accurately and make productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments.
• Ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Ability to meet or exceed team and driver needs and expectations and provide excellent service directly or indirectly.
• Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas through various mediums.
• Ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.

Responsibilities

• Learn to build and maintain professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers to support carrier setup, minimize turnover, and maximize productivity.
• Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and participate in special projects to optimize fleet operations and achieve profitability.
• Learn personnel management, including training and orienting drivers and employees and assisting with internal and third-party customer systems.
• Learn to maximize fleet efficiency and profitability, recommend continuous improvements, measure key performance indicators, and prepare and present customer-specific reports and financial analyses, including through face-to-face interactions at customer locations.
• Learn to manage inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment in the market.
• Learn administrative duties such as payroll, management of the net-revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, documentation, resolving pay issues, P&L analysis, invoicing, and operational or financial reporting.
• Learn yard management, including inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, and coordinating scheduled preventive maintenance and repairs of safety-related mechanical issues for account equipment as required.
• Work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, planning, mechanical, and accessorial-pay issues as they arise, including when on call where necessary.
• Learn to maintain the company's safety culture through daily driver safety messages, monthly briefings, quarterly training, annual reviews, and enforcement of company policies and DOT and company safety requirements.
• Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements, including managing freight exceptions and adjusting driver ETAs for pickup and delivery schedules and road conditions.

Benefits

• Medical benefit
• Dental benefit
• Vision benefit
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid time off, including vacation and sick time, commensurate with tenure
• Six weeks of paid maternity leave
• Two weeks of paid parental leave
• Six paid holidays annually
• Potential eligibility for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes